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Yes, the minimum standard is still maintained. They obviously did contingency and risk analysis, they are a professional football club, they aren’t doing stuff on the back of a fag packet. To suggest they’ve done none is ludicrous. To basically say the stadium (which a lot of us fought and...

I agree with your points completely, I’m hoping the MPs intervention will bring the rolling stock conundrum even more to the front for the DfT. Hopefully with a more proactive government on railways, not one that says “we are a nation of car drivers” they can look to invest. I think the railways...

A lack of Will is incorrect, there is a lack of Will to look for these solutions, but a wall of bureaucracy. This might all sound like a bit of train speak nonsense, so apologies. Stock is owned by ROSCOs, so therefore TOCs have to agree a lease with ROSCOs and the funding for these leases comes...

If you can get enough signal on Matchday, this app/webpage is perfect for understand what is going on/when the next train is. https://traksy.uk/live/M+17+GLYNDE+-19

If the government invested in ETCS this problem would however disappear!

There were a series of Buses that disappeared but were never replaced, or replaced with paid seagulls travel. Seagulls travel is a great service but (I might be wrong) did it not used to be part of the travel subsidy, ultimately people aren’t going to pay for a service when there’s an...

The palace special involves the removal of a Brighton - Lewes - Brighton circuit, and only runs because the crowds need to be kept apart. More trains can run without the special. It also would not recycle the stock to return and collect alternative capacity. Also a service to use that routing...

I don’t know the answer to that sorry, but I do know that the midweek failures are, in my opinion due to lack of rolling stock. The service between Brighton and Lewes has actually been improved since the opening of the stadium. There’s now a new signalling section between Falmer and London Road...

Post game against Crystal Palace (Midweek) there are more carriages available, as the train runs after the evening rush hour so, the services in the London area do not require extra carriages. So there is your accuracy. On a Saturday and Sunday the service is running at full capacity so there is...

There may not have been a clicker at that exact moment, but there is extensive CCTV that monitors whether the situation is out of control. The clicker is all reality is a fail safe and one of the last things that actually matters prevent the overcrowding.

No. Six trains an hour at full capacity is more than enough to handle the crowds, you will have to wait about 15 - 20 mins occasionally because you can not have trains constantly moving along the line like a travelator. The problem with midweeks is carriage length, which cannot be strengthened...

If there was a dangerous overcrowding issue after the match, then they would have stepped in, I’m not really sure what the issue is. You may have not seen the clicker, but there is one on both platforms. Trains are always going to be busy onboard to and from any stadium in the country.

The department of transport tender rolling stock. Yes it is run for profit, that’s why the government should control it, this MP is in government, the answer is investment from them. I know a solution that would fix this and to be honest most railways in the country, anyone else with a Transport...

To describe the building and approval of the stadium as a complete and utter failure because the train service involves a queue for half an hour (or more tbf, but either way) on Midweek games is nothing short of hyperbole.

There was someone with a clicker on both sides yesterday. Just because you can’t see them doesn’t mean they aren’t there. MPs can ask for the service to be better all they want, but until they tender rolling stock additions nothing will change. Yesterday I found the service to and from...

Sorry I was doing a poor attempt at sarcasm there.

Too busy laughing at the only person in this conversation (that I know of) in recent years, who has been beaten unconscious and stabbed, in football related violence, who is of Jewish decent.

You’re quite Clearly suiting your own agenda, surprise, surprise the same people have turned up again and completely made it about themselves, as they do on every thread about this subject.

Bizarre accusation, of course they are also anti Israel and to an extent anti Jewish, so that isn’t really “clearly”, but it’s important to look at it as football related violence as well, I’m obviously very aware of anti semitism, and have friends who are active in the Israeli football scene...

I agree the beatings were wrong but to look at it with the context of Football Related violence is very important.